Date-July 27, 1999: Started Step 2
and have about six hours into the rf board on
this step so far.Have resistors, varactors, diodes and transistors mounted
to the board.

Date- August 6, 1999: Finished step
2 and everything works great! Time in step two to date is 16
hours.
The receiver is better than my TS570, but the 570 beats it with DSP!
The filters in the K2 are just great- very smooth and little ringing. The
phase
noise in the K2 is better than my TS570, very low.
Total time to end of Step 2: 32 hours

Here is a picture of the RF Board to the end of Step Two

Date-August 6, 1999: Started step
3 and have about
five hours into this step.

Date-August 17, 1999: Step three
finished; time in at this step
17 hours. Total time to date- 49 hours. Now
on to thetesting !

Date- August 28, 1999: Most alignments
are finished and the rig appears to work
just great! Here are a couple of the test results:
Rx Sensitivity----- 3.750mhz------- -145dbm
*** HP 8656B signal generator ***
7.100mhz------- -146dbm
10.100mhz------- -147dbm
14.100mhz------- -144dbm
18.100mhz------- -146dbm
21.100mhz------- -146dbm
24.900mhz------- -145dbm
28.200mhz------- -145dbm
Tx Power Output-- Good on all bands and seems to follow power settings
+- .2w
Tx frequency is within 100hz on all bands and clean. I had a vco
frequency spur problem on 10m, but bandpass filter alignment seems
to have fixed it. I looked at Tx output on all bands with spectrum analyzer
and all bands look good.